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During the last decade, Parker’s routine has fostered one of the country’s most compelling new music scenes, where players from diverse backgrounds and demographics have converged to create wildly accessible improvised music.—
Grayson Haver Currin,
Pitchfork,
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The vast and diverse plant category of ground covers includes tough, fast-spreading creeping wire vine, drought-tolerant Blue Rug Juniper or Myoporum, and colorful flowering ground covers like iceplant and common periwinkle.—
Lee Wallender,
The Spruce,
30 Apr. 2026
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Notably, Bauhinia blakeana is a sterile hybrid, resulting from the cross-pollination of two different plant varieties.—
Pauline J. Yao,
Artforum,
2 May 2026
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Those two would be no different.—
Chantz Martin,
FOXNews.com,
2 May 2026
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Together with the rapid motion of the PBH—traveling at hundreds of times the speed of sound through the bulk of our planet—this would create a shock wave not too dissimilar from an earthquake.—
Phil Plait,
Scientific American,
24 Apr. 2026
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Cousins’s presence means Mendoza likely won’t have to start right away, and will also have a veteran quarterback who can mentor him — not dissimilar to how Alex Smith started for the Chiefs during Patrick Mahomes’s rookie year.—
Andrew Greif,
NBC news,
24 Apr. 2026
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Critics haven’t been able to reconcile the film’s disparate goals.—
Bethy Squires,
Vulture,
30 Apr. 2026
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The granular data on the way disparate health outcomes play out across states and races may help health disparities researchers discern which policies are successful and which are not, said Philip Alberti, an epidemiologist and the director of the AAMC Center for Health Justice.—
Anil Oza,
STAT,
29 Apr. 2026
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At Wild Adventures Theme Park in Valdosta, Georgia, a zebra named Kurtsie and a giraffe named Bakari have formed an unlike friendship — one that began with curiosity, grew through hardship and blossomed into an inseparable bond.—
Ryan Brennan,
Charlotte Observer,
16 Apr. 2026
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Or the move could have been to help the calf stay afloat—unlike adults, young sperm whales tend to sink and need to swim harder to reach the surface to breathe.—
Jackie Flynn Mogensen,
Scientific American,
26 Mar. 2026
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What Makes Steller Sea Lions Different Beyond their size, Steller sea lions have distinctive habits and capabilities.—
Samantha Agate,
Miami Herald,
29 Apr. 2026
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Images of her outside the hotel were splashed across tabloids, with The Carlyle’s distinctive gold revolving door in the background.—
Elise Taylor,
Vanity Fair,
29 Apr. 2026
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Although the report did explicitly denounce gross imbalances in the international flows of information, it was still considered by many to be too vague, production-oriented, and most importantly, antithetical to the Western model of market freedom.—
Stijn Joye,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
23 Apr. 2026
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But what passes for branding in commercial circles is antithetical to democratic values when a sitting president puts his name on federal property and policy initiatives, say experts.—
Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy,
USA Today,
11 Apr. 2026
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At the busy lobby bar, those attending the function are easily distinguishable by their tuxedos and ball gowns from hotel guests in their Saturday-night duds.—
Shane Harris,
The Atlantic,
27 Apr. 2026
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Up front, the gunshots were not immediately distinguishable in the cacophony.—
Calvin Woodward,
Chicago Tribune,
26 Apr. 2026
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“Antonymic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/antonymic. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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